Example sentences of "[prep] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got a body of about the right description and they 've gone to see Miss Morgan 's parents . |
| 2 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 3 | Then the reports began to flood in … a fair-haired , blue-eyed toddler of about the right age , always in the company of a Greek couple much too old to be his natural parents . |
| 4 | His aim was to determine whether single letters are dealt with by the right hemisphere in a visual or a phonological code . |
| 5 | The nut on the Rockwood is made from bone-substitute plastic and is well cut to about the right height . |
| 6 | They know that there will be subjects to choose between at the right moment ( or , sometimes , subjects for which their children will not be chosen ) and they associate the chances of doing well at , for instance , GCSE level in mathematics with being good at maths in the primary school . |
| 7 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 8 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 9 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |